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Re: files missing after converting a cvs repository to git

From
Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 7, 2008, 15:55 UTC
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 01:08, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> Has the CVS repo been tampered with in the past? If so, it's entirely
> possible that checking out and working with CVS works just fine, but
> getting history into coherent changesets is impossible.

Unfortunately yes. Thats what I thought, and was afraid, was going on. I've managed to get things working by restoring some of the missing files ,v files from a backup and regenerating the tracking repositories. Then I had to remove the files in question from cvs and readd them, git cvsimport then saw these files.

> cvs2svn is apparently quite good at getting even the weirdest history
> right. Perhaps you can try that and then running "git svn" on the
> resulting svn repo?
Thanks, I'll give cvs2svn a go.
> Good luck. You'll probably need it :-/
Cheers
Adam
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  4. Michael HaggertyOct 7, 2008
  5. Adam MercerOct 7, 2008
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